I have big problem. Fact: Thunder strikes in my lan cable and makes my onboard Intel Gigabit (DX48BT2 MB) unable to detect cable. I checked cable link with other computer and it's working just fine.
The thing is.. I stopped finding a solution to make the onboard LAN work, so I used a PCI lan card, a working Realtek 100mbs, but it does the same thing. I even reinstalled windows .. thinking like a hardware amateur that windows registry or something in lan drivers got messed up after the thunderstrike.
My question is ... a PCI Lan card uses some of the onboard Lan's physical hardware (which in my case are probably fried up) ? I can't see any other explanation.
Further step by step details of what my brain did. Installed windows with the onboard Lan enabled from Bios. Checked if it detects cable and it failed properly. Turned off computer and inserted the 100Mbps Realtek. Disabled the onboard from Bios.
In windows Realtek installs succesfully.. it detects the damn cable and says that I have limited connection. So I start to cheer up and change the Local Administered Adress (i have DHCP internet connection) with the LAA of the onboard Lan. After this change, the realtek connection dissapears completely from Network Connections and Device Manager says to me that the Realtek device cannot start properly. I restarted Windows and now the computer freezes when detecting lan connection.
Any ideas ? .. 'cause mine are about throwing this chunk of metal and silicon through my physical windows.
I thank for you patience !
The thing is.. I stopped finding a solution to make the onboard LAN work, so I used a PCI lan card, a working Realtek 100mbs, but it does the same thing. I even reinstalled windows .. thinking like a hardware amateur that windows registry or something in lan drivers got messed up after the thunderstrike.
My question is ... a PCI Lan card uses some of the onboard Lan's physical hardware (which in my case are probably fried up) ? I can't see any other explanation.
Further step by step details of what my brain did. Installed windows with the onboard Lan enabled from Bios. Checked if it detects cable and it failed properly. Turned off computer and inserted the 100Mbps Realtek. Disabled the onboard from Bios.
In windows Realtek installs succesfully.. it detects the damn cable and says that I have limited connection. So I start to cheer up and change the Local Administered Adress (i have DHCP internet connection) with the LAA of the onboard Lan. After this change, the realtek connection dissapears completely from Network Connections and Device Manager says to me that the Realtek device cannot start properly. I restarted Windows and now the computer freezes when detecting lan connection.
Any ideas ? .. 'cause mine are about throwing this chunk of metal and silicon through my physical windows.
I thank for you patience !